260 HAS SCIENCE DISCOVERED GOD? 



of Science Is a greater and more glorious Being than 

 the God of the Theologians. 



Suppose we let it be granted that accumulated evi- 

 dence shows that human beings survive, a number of 

 problems clamor for solution. What does survival 

 mean in general? Why should it be limited to human 

 beings? What line can be drawn differentiating one 

 part of existence from another? It seems likely that 

 all existence is perpetual. We certainly find that 

 energy, for Instance, continues without loss, changing 

 form, but always constant in amount; that death is 

 not the characteristic and fundamental thing in the 

 universe, but continued life. Energy need not always 

 be associated with matter; It may pass into the ether, 

 and. Indeed, Is constantly so doing. Not only from 

 every star and every fire, but from all objects without 

 exception, there Is a constant interchange of energy 

 between ether and matter. Sometimes matter gains 

 more than It loses, sometimes it loses more than it 

 gains. This Interchange constitutes the whole activity 

 of what we observe; and the energy Is never destroyed. 



Is it the same with life? Not human life alone, but 

 all life, animal and vegetable together? We do not 

 know for certain, but it Is a natural working hypothesis 

 that the Interaction between life and matter is tempo- 

 rary, while the interaction of life with the greater 

 physical universe Is permanent. In that sense survival 

 is the law to which there need be no exception. But 

 when we talk of human survival we mean more than 

 that. We mean Individual survival, the survival of 

 personality and character. Now survival only applies 

 to things which really exist. If there is no Individu- 



